Senior Counsel, Data Ventures

Position Summary...

Imagine a position that allows you to apply your trusted legal expertise while working alongside the world’s largest retailer. Imagine an opportunity where your knowledge takes you beyond the courtroom and positions you as a trusted business advisor. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy solving problems and working collaboratively toward a solution, you’ll find that being a part of our Legal department is a move that brings with it tremendous growth potential and exciting new challenges. The most exciting part? You’ll likely find yourself in a place you never envisioned your law degree would take you. 

The Director and Senior Counsel, Data Ventures, will act as the lead lawyer for the Data Ventures business of Walmart. Data Ventures is focused on productizing Walmart’s rich data assets to better serve customers and provide data products that deliver actionable, customer-centric insights to help merchants and brands make better business decisions.

This role will directly support DV leadership, handle legal strategy, escalations, new product review/support, as well as transactional work related to the products and offerings of Data Ventures. In addition to supporting Data Ventures, this role will create strategic data protection standards for the larger department (i.e. leading a center of excellence that standardizes the contracting and onboarding of third parties who receive certain types of commercial data).

If you are a driven legal leader looking to act as a strategic advisor to the business, add value to the business, the legal team, and the company, and are looking for your next challenge, we invite you to apply and come join us as Director & Senior Counsel supporting Data Ventures.

This role reports directly into the Vice President and Chief Counsel, Walmart US Growth, who is responsible for overseeing the legal teams supporting Data Ventures, Walmart Connect, Walmart+, Marketing, and Customer Data and Identity.

What you'll do...

• Manage legal strategy and support for Data Ventures, including the direct support of Data Ventures leadership.  

• Use your negotiation skills to advise on, review, draft, and negotiate agreements in support of new and existing products.

• Provide product counseling related to any new data/tech products and services to be launched by the business.

• Be the trusted advisor who responds promptly to complex legal requests, coordinating with the team and outside counsel to deliver practical, timely, and high-quality advice.

• Use your problem-solving skills to identify and assess business and legal risks, finding innovative ways to mitigate them while achieving product and transactional goals.

• Build strong relationships to facilitate a coordinated team approach to launching new products and features and manage legal risk.

What you’ll bring:

• A minimum of 7+ years, ideally with data commercialization, data insights and/or technology experience.

• Have experience managing a team of lawyers, and/or acting as the lead attorney for a business.

• Have product counseling experience within the tech/data field. 

• Significant experience drafting and negotiating SaaS, data analytics, licensing and other tech and data related agreements.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability to work practically and quickly to evaluate risk, solve problems, and make decisions that balance risk, opportunity, and business objectives.

• Develop and leverage internal partnerships across global governance, the business and other functions to maximize the achievement of business goals.